DiskStation DS1522+

A N150 PC is head and shoulders above a Synology NAS for running Plex Media Server. Use a Syno NAS for storage, but run PMS on a different system. The N150 is a more powerful CPU than the Intel Celerons or AMD Rxxxx CPUs used by Synology. Furthermore, the Intel Graphics in the N150 is more capable t

I switched from a DS1522+ to a Ugreen 4800plus running Unraid, and I can’t say I miss anything. Once you get past the small learning curve, it’s perfectly fine. Another option would be ARC Loader with Xpenology. I tested that before Unraid, and it worked perfectly. I’m not sure about the backup prog

Way too old, and do NOT shop for new Synology. Last generation is basically Synology's "death date". People are going "what the fuck is this dude going on about?" Well, I'm going on about Synology requiring the use of their own branded HDDs and NVMEs moving forward just to access basic features. So

same feedback and feeling with as6604t... go work and came back 8 hours later, it is off... nfs randomly shutdown itself... password reset after firmware upgrade... the hell !!! my primary nas ds1522+ has never get an issue... I don't use any container on them ! storage only.

Yup. Same, I had a lot of ex-enterprise drives and was worried I'd be stuck one day. Plus the quality issues... I had some corrosion issues with a DS418play that was out of warranty, and after replacing it, I later tore it down and cleaned it. Then I realized how incredibly cheap and prone to corros

Yes, the Synology appears to be much more efficient. I run my Synology DS1522+ with it's max of 32GB of ram.

Thank you for your reply and sounds like I am on the same journey you have been on! Touch wood, Tailscale just works perfectly and Ive not noticed any issues with latency or packet loss, only with Plex, but then again the DS1522+ was never designed to do that well. For the containers, I only use Por

TBH, grab a Minisforum N5 Pro or another equivalent. Then you can run MUCH larger models on the Radeon 890M iGPU than on any consumer GPU. But you'd need a 3rd party OS (unraid or truenas usually) so overall don't expect any personalized support, not from Minis, certainly not from the OS developer.

.....spoke too soon. Worked with both set to same, then had to deactivate login in UniFi to connect. Now one Synology (DS220+) connects fine & the other (DS1522+) doesn't. Same settings. Annoying.

I had a few Synology boxes over the years before their PR disaster of forcing people to use their drives and then backpedaling. My current box is a DS1522+ with their OS, DSM. For my next NAS, looking either a Ugreen box or TrueNAS as DIY build. There’s also Xpenology which is open source very simil